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Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (The Grand Condé)

Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé

France

1621 – 1686 (65 years old)

First Prince of the Blood and French military prodigy who destroyed the invincible Spanish tercios at Rocroi at age 21 and won Lens and Seneffe.

Vallery (Yonne), France

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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne

France

1611 – 1675 (63 years old)

Marshal General of France under Louis XIV praised by Napoleon as the greatest French military genius, master of operational maneuver and the Winter Campaign of 1674.

Paris, France

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Lachit Borphukan

লাচিত বৰফুকন

India

1622 – 1672 (49 years old)

Ahom generalissimo who defended the independence of Assam against the mighty Mughal Empire, famously defeating Ram Singh I's imperial armada at the naval Battle of Saraighat on the Brahmaputra River in 1671.

Hoolungapara (Jorhat, Assam), India

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Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong)

鄭成功 / 國姓爺

Japan

1624 – 1662 (37 years old)

Ming loyalist general and maritime lord who waged war against the Qing dynasty, defeated the Dutch East India Company, and founded the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan.

Tainan, Taiwan

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Miyamoto Musashi

宮本 武蔵 (新免武蔵藤原玄信)

Japan

c. 1584 CE – 1645 (61 years old)

Japan's greatest swordsman and 'Sword Saint' (Kensei), who remained undefeated across sixty-one mortal duels, founded the two-sword Niten Ichi-ryu school, and authored The Book of Five Rings.

Kumamoto, Japan

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Rais Ali Bitchin

علي بتشين

Algeria

c. 1560 – 1645 (85 years old)

Supreme Admiral of the Algiers corsair fleet in the early 17th century, who married Princess Lalla Lalla-Houm and built the historic Ali Bitchin Mosque in the Casbah in 1622.

Algiers, Algeria

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Malik Ambar (Chapu)

मलिक अंबर / مَلِك عَمْبَر

Ethiopia

1 – 1626 (78 years old)

Ethiopian-born military commander and Prime Minister of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate who pioneered guerrilla warfare (Bargi-giri) to repeatedly repel the Mughal Empire.

Khuldabad (Aurangabad), India

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Sanada Yukimura (Sanada Nobushige)

真田幸村 / 真田信繁

Japan

1 – 1615 (48 years old)

Legendary Sengoku period samurai general hailed as 'The Number One Warrior in Japan' and 'The Crimson Demon of War' for his heroic defense of Osaka Castle.

Osaka, Japan

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Honda Tadakatsu

本多 忠勝

Japan

1548 – 1610 (62 years old)

Fabled Japanese samurai warrior and general of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the 'Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa', who fought in over fifty-seven battles without ever receiving a significant wound.

Kuwana (Mie), Japan

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Maharana Pratap

महाराणा प्रताप सिंह

India

1540 – 1597 (56 years old)

Thirteenth king of Mewar celebrated as the supreme hero of Rajput resistance, who refused to submit to Mughal Emperor Akbar and fought the epic Battle of Haldighati in 1576 with his loyal horse Chetak.

Udaipur (Rajasthan), India

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Alvaro de Bazan

Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán, Marqués de Santa Cruz

Spain

1526 – 1588 (61 years old)

Greatest admiral in Spanish history who never lost a battle across a fifty-year naval career, commanded the reserve galleys at the Battle of Lepanto, and conquered the Azores at Ponta Delgada.

Viso del Marques (Ciudad Real), Spain

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Qi Jiguang

戚继光

China

1528 – 1588 (59 years old)

Ming dynasty military general and strategist who eradicated the Wokou pirate scourge along China's southeastern coast, invented the Mandarin Duck military formation, and refortified the Great Wall.

Penglai (Shandong), China

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Qi Jiguang (General Qi)

戚繼光

China

1528 – 1588 (59 years old)

Ming dynasty general and military engineer who eradicated wokou coastal piracy, invented the Mandarin Duck tactical formation, and reinforced the Great Wall.

Penglai (Yantai), China

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Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I

عبد الملك الأول السعدي

Morocco

c. 1541 – 1578 (~37 years old)

Brilliant Saadian Sultan who personally commanded the Moroccan army to its epochal victory at the Battle of the Three Kings (Alcácer Quibir) in 1578, altering European and African history.

Marrakesh, Morocco

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Ramadan Pasha

رمضان باشا

Italy

c. 1525 – 1577 (~52 years old)

Pasha of Algiers (1574–1577) who played a pivotal role in the final recapture of Tunis and La Goulette from the Spanish Empire in 1574 alongside Uluj Ali.

Algiers, Algeria

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Rais Dragut (Turgut Reis)

طرغود باشا (درغوث)

Algeria

1485 – 1565 (80 years old)

Legendary Mediterranean admiral, described by contemporary European chroniclers as 'a drawn sword over the seas', key ally of Hayreddin Barbarossa in Algiers.

Tripoli / Algiers honored, Libya

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Turgut Reis (Dragut Rais)

Turgut Reis / Dragut

Turkey

1 – 1565 (80 years old)

Ottoman admiral, privateer, and Bey of Tripoli described by contemporaries as 'a living drawn sword', who captured Tripoli and commanded at the Great Siege of Malta.

Tripoli, Libya

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Hasan Corso

حسن كورسو

France

1518 – 1556 (38 years old)

Corsican-born commander who was adopted by Salah Reis, rose to Agha of the Janissaries, and was elected governor by the people and garrison of Algiers in 1556.

Algiers, Algeria

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